Scout And The Injustices In To Kill A Mockingbird By Harper Lee

Scout and the Injustices In To Kill A Mockingbird

Through the details of the To Kill A Mockingbird case Scout shows her reactions to the injustice in the case. She shows displeasure and wisdom through her thought and feeling throughout the book and Tom Robbinson case.In the book To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Scout's experience with the Tom Robbinson court case influences her understanding of injustice ultimately leading her to learn that not everyone is treated equally and given the same opportunities. Scout gets her knowledge of right and wrong from her father, Atticus, who is a lawyer. Atticus got assigned the Tom Robbinson case and the children asked questions about it. ¨Until my father explained it to me later, I did not understand the subtlety of Tom’s predicament: he would not have dared strike a white woman under any circumstances and expect to live long, so he took the first opportunity to run—a sure sign of guilt.¨(lee 198) This shows that Scout likes to ask her father questions about the case and that he answers them. So she knows the case relatively well, as well as the

They had the privilege of people believing them because they were white and people talked to them. ¨Atticus had used every tool available to free men to save Tom Robbinson, but in the secrets courts of mens hearts Atticus had no case. Tom was a dead man the minute Mayella Ewell opened her mouth and screamed.¨(lee 224) This shows how as soon as Mayella and her father Bob accused Tom of raping and beating Mayella he was a dead man because he is black. ¨Maycomb was an old town, but it was a tired old town when I first knew it.¨(lee 5) This quote is when Scout first introduces the town and calls it old. It was a small old town in the south meaning it was behind the times and had old views. This is why the racism is so bad and Tom was accused and